The Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/ Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New...
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languages spoken in the country. In 2006, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832 living languages (languages...
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*mV asi ‘netbag’ < *at(i,u) Yega language: kari ‘ear’ < *kand(e,i)k(V] Like the Koiarian languages, Binanderean languages only allow for open syllables and...
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additional links to, among others, the languages of the island of Timor to the west of New Guinea, Angan, Goilalan, Koiarian, Dagan, Eleman, Wissel Lakes, the...
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GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Barai is a Koiarian language spoken in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. The Birarie dialect is...
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GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Namiae is a Koiarian language of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Kokoro (9°09′59″S...
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with the Engan languages in a Central New Guinea Highlands family. There is little doubt that the Chimbu–Wahgi family is valid. The languages are: Chimbu–Wahgi...
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Ömie (Aomie) is a language of Papua New Guinea. Half of speakers are monolingual. Paradisec have a collection of Ömie recordings. Ömie at Ethnologue (25th...
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Guinea and Melanesia with the languages of the Andaman Islands (or at least Great Andamanese) and, tentatively, the languages of Tasmania, both of which...
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Pluractionality (section In Papuan languages)
different places. Pluractionality is not uncommon in New Guinea. The Koiarian language Barai has suppletive forms: The Slavic verb can express pluractionality...
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the term "Upper Managalasi" indicates Ömie, another member of Baraic languages. Dialects are Muaturaina, Chimona, Dea, Akabafa, Nami, Mesari, Averi,...
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the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum. The languages are as follows: Dagan (Meneao Range) Owen Stanley Range Koiarian (Koiari – Managalas Plateau) Kwalean (Humene–Uare)...
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(LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. The Namiae language and Barai language, both Koiarian languages, are spoken in the LLG. Yoivi Niniuri Kawowoki Kaura...
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Koita Grammar Sketch and Vocabulary". In Dutton, T.E. editor, Studies in languages of Central and South-East Papua. C-29:281-412. Pacific Linguistics, The...
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The Turama–Kikorian languages are a family identified by Arthur Capell (1962) and part of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) family in the classifications...
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Knowledge Produced by the Catalogue of Endangered Languages", Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages, Routledge, pp. 79–84, doi:10.4324/9781315686028-6...
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numerous language is Ngalum, with some 20,000 speakers; the best known is probably Telefol. The Ok languages have dyadic kinship terms. The Ok languages are...
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The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
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Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International. United...
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The Engan languages, or more precisely Enga–Kewa–Huli or Enga – Southern Highland, are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New...
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Kamula–Elevala languages are a small family of the Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the region of the Elevala River. There are three languages, namely Aekyowm...
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language#Evolution Mailuan languages#Evolution Dagan languages#Evolution Goilalan languages#Evolution Koiarian languages#Evolution Kwalean languages#Evolution...
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similarity of 70%, which is higher than any other languages compared. Therefore, it is likely that these two languages form a subgroup. Similarly, Etoro and Bedamini...
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the main language families of the world The language families of Africa Map of the Austronesian languages Map of major Dravidian languages Distribution...
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The Kolopom languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005). Along with the...
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perhaps a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in eastern West Papua in the region of the Digul River. Six of the languages are sufficiently attested for...
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Lakes languages, also known as the Wissel Lakes or Wissel Lakes – Kemandoga River, are a small family of closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken...
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The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley...
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Glottolog (category Language families)
of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database...
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The Kiwaian languages form a language family of New Guinea. They are a dialect cluster of half a dozen closely related languages. They are grammatically...
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